The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-09
COM MENT AND OPINION.

No news is good news, according to the
proverb. and it applies to the operations of the
! coal ring. As long as we do not hear from them
| there is no raise in the price of coal.-Chicago
| Journal
| THE Cleveland kite wants something better
| that Western free-trade tail with which to
! '-sweep the country" That would bring the
| old thing down at the first fence.-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
| WE do not desire to foment disturbance in a
| foreign county. But why would it be any more
| reprehensible for Americans to go to free Ire
| land from tyranny now than 1T was for English
| men to march under Garibaldi against Ferdi-
nand in 1S60l-New York Star.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND may have made a
profound study of the intricate and difficult
problems presented by the subject of tariff tax
alton and incidental protection. but so have
many other people, and they differ from him
radically in the conclusion that the surest way
to make country prosperous is to cut off one
of the main sources of its prosperity.-Chicago
Mail.
PEOPLE who are going to build may like to
know that "a three thousand dollar house, one
that the architectural paper says can be built
for S. 85037; costs So 100, according to the arch
tects estimate is worth So, ZOO, the carpenter
says, to build; increases in expense to. 81, 500
during the process of erection. and makes you
draw your check for So. 953 % before you move
in and get your first bill for repairs.-Boston
Journal of Education.
The free-trader is theorist; a doctrinaire;
one who dreams of ideal world with ideal
governments all on the same commercial. hnan-
cial and industrial plane. If the world happened
to be in that deectable condition, free trade
would be the grandest of economic theories; but
as the world happens not to be in any such ideal
attitude, the sublime theory of free trade has to
bend to the stubborn practical or be broken in
the confiict.-Ph Philadelphia Times tDem.)
THE mugwump movement failed utterly in
the Bay State, and Governor Ames was re-
elected by increased majority for the Repub-
lcans. At the same time the effect of stirring
the Democratic blood in Maryland was to roll
UP an increased Democratic majority; and under
the influence of his later enlightenment Mr..
Cleveland cannot fail to regard both of these re-
suits with satisfaction Such is also the senti-
ment which inspires the masses of the united
Democracy.-New York Sun.
STRANGE to say orr national banking system,
one of the best ever used in any country. cannot
survive the national Universities that brought it
forth 1t cannot exist in the condition of pros
perity that prevails. 1t began to decline
when the country began to recover from the
effects of the war. and every new advance in
tional prosperity has been attended by weak
ening of the influence and authority of the banks.
1t was founded debt, and it does not appear
that it can exist after the national debt has dis
appeared.-St. Louis Republican.
A sCANTY and apparently hesitatng Demo
cratic minority in the House, which would be
. instantly overpowered but for the almost solid
Republican vote in defense of home industries.
and a scanty Republican majority in the Senate
only stand between those industries and all the
mischief that free traders can make. Millions
have been invested at the South within the past
two years, and millions more at the North in
the belief that the Democratic party had learned
something during the thirty years that have
elapsed since Buchanans time 1t would be
costly thing for those investors. and in the end
for the Democratic party. to have that inn
preston dispelled by the action of Congress this
yeas.-New York Tribune.